I have unblocked Blair P. Houghton. Re: [WikiEN-l] Unreasonable block of user Blair P. Houghton by adminCryptoDerk

Wed Mar 16 20:51:16 UTC 2005

Ray Saintonge said:
> Tony Sidaway wrote:
>>>
>>I dispute any suggestion that protection of a page is in any way *less*
>>drastic than blocking a user.  If a page is protected, *nobody* can
>>edit it.  If one or two over-enthusiastic revert warriors are blocked
>>for up to a day, only their potential edits are lost--and since they're
>>likely to be holding up editing by their reverts, their loss is often a
>>very good thing.
>>
> If an editor has something to add that is not related to the war it
> will  still be just as valid afte the lock-up period has ended.  Very
> little  is of such immediate importance as to not survive the
> application of a  little patience.
>

And the editors who do not hang around because of some petty usenet flame
war being inappropriately conducted on a wiki...?